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EPH at the Starlight Pop Opera in KZN

The artist line up included the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, Bronwen Forbay, Wouter Kellerman, Ghapi, Gloria Bosman, Tracey-Lee Oliver and Ronan Keating

Details: 14 March 2016

South Africa - Under an African sky, the FNB Starlight Pop Opera was held in August at Chris Saunders Park, Umhlanga in KwaZulu Natal. Beautiful sounds from the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra and soft washes of colour brought the stage dome to life. Chandeliers helped create an extravagant atmosphere as memories were made with Ronan Keating as special guest performer.

Presented by First National Bank and the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, EPH Productions supplied the full technical for a private show (which had a full dress rehearsal) attended by senior citizens from nearby old age homes, and for a gala evening for invited FNB guests.

Working on this production for the fourth year, EPH Productions had their ducks in a row to supply the glittering event. Control was on a grandMA and the

Eventec was founded by Wijnand Mol in 2007

Eventec enjoys success with Yamaha consoles

Details: 14 March 2016

The Netherlands - Studios Aalsmeer is a 65,000m2 television production complex south-west of Amsterdam, which hosts more than 30 different media companies and enterprises. Amongst these is production technology rental company Eventec, whose range of Yamaha digital mixing consoles is providing the audio backbone to a number of Dutch television programmes and other events produced on site.

Situated near Schipol airport, Studios Aalsmeer is probably best known as the place where Joop van den Ende and John de Mol merged their respective companies in 1994 - Endemol going on to become one of the most recognisable global brands in television production.

Endemol moved to new premises in 2010, since when the studio and office complex at Aalsmeer has become a home to media businesses, a dance studio, local radio station, cinema, game studios, restaurants and companies related to Schipho

ETC's new ColorSource Relay power control system in action at PLASA 2015

ETC debuts ColorSource Relay control system

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - As venues like theatres, schools and community centres upgrade their lighting rigs with LED technology, their power control technology needs to be upgraded as well. With a simple configuration and dependable wireless performance, the ColorSource Relay power control system is a budget friendly solution for data distribution and system infrastructure, particularly for smaller sized venues.

Working in conjunction with the ColorSource Relay, the ColorSource Transmitter connects to a wired DMX source - like a lighting desk - and transmits DMX and data signals wirelessly to any ColorSource Relay within a 100 metre range and supports up to 16 amps of power.

The problem solving ColorSource Relay makes it easy to get DMX and power into remote and hard-to-reach locations, without having to run cords everywhere.

And the ColorSource Relay is not just for LEDs. Combined with the Col

Case Study: Hans Zimmer Live

When award winning film composer Hans Zimmer brought his smash-hit tour Hans Zimmer Live to North America fall 2024, the show's audio team sought out to bring infrafrequency bass to the show to add new depth to the show's audio experience. The team chose Danley Sound Labs.

Proel on the Road is described as a hands on day of all things MI & Pro Audio

Proel schedules Birmingham mini expo

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Proel (International) Ltd has announced their mini expo event being held at the NEC Conference Centre, Birmingham on Wednesday 28 October.

Proel on the Road is described as a hands on day of all things MI & Pro Audio aimed at retailers, installers, hire & event companies.

Sales director Danny Clarke commented, "We wanted to try a new way of getting our products in front of customers both old and new. This event will feature new products from Proel along with mini displays of our distributed lines such as Axiom, Sagitter, EAW, CORT & Randall all plugged in and ready to try out.

We will also have hourly demonstrations of the Axiom Vertical Array systems as well as the UK launch and demos of the new Redline Professional Active cabinets from EAW."

Registration for this event can be found at www.proel.co.uk. Trade customers who register and attend this event will

The label is best known for its annual series of Day Off concerts across the US and Canada

D.A.S. keeps it real on Fool's Gold Days Off

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - From their home offices in Brooklyn, NY, Fool's Gold Records is an independent record label that has established itself with releases bridging the worlds of hip-hop and electronic music, introducing artists like Kid Sister, Danny Brown, Kid Cudi, and Duck Sauce. The label is best known for its annual series of Day Off concerts across the US and Canada and, just recently, the company sponsored a shindig in the greater Miami area. This concert featured hip hop recording artist Vic Mensa, DJ A-Trak, and Rap artist Mike Floss-all of whom performed through a potent sound reinforcement system drawn from the Aero Series 2 catalogue of Valencia, Spain-based D.A.S. Audio.

Rental Stages of Hollywood, FL which specializes in a wide range of staging, lighting, sound, and supporting equipment for concerts and special events, was contracted to provide logistical support for the Day Off

Miranda Lambert Miranda Lambert on her Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour

Bandit plays Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Bandit Lites once again working with Grammy award winning superstar Miranda Lambert on her Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour. The fall tour kicked off in September and features performances from some of the country's most talented acts including RayLynn, Ashely Monroe, Claire Dunn and Courtney Cole.

Following the massive success of her Platinum Tour, the singer-songwriter worked with longtime lighting designer Chris Lisle to create a show that highlighted what she does best: Bring great music to her fans. "We kept it pretty straight forward with three trusses - downstage, midstage, and upstage, along with some floor lights," said Lisle.

"There are mainly four types of lights: Robe BMFL used for their amazing optics, gobos, and intensity, Clay Paky B-Eyes for general colour wash and then some fun effects, Robe Robin 600 for front light and Robe Pointes us

Robe The Prompter by Roger Stenberg at Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm (photo: Roger Stenberg)

Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm invests in Robe

Details: 14 March 2016

Sweden - Robe's DL series continues to impress theatre and performance venues with the Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern (Royal Dramatic Theatre) in Stockholm recently investing in DLS Profiles.

The theatre, that produces over 1000 works a year across eight dynamic performance spaces, is the national theatre for spoken drama and was founded in 1788 and has occupied the current, majestic art nouveau building designed by architect Fredrik Lilljekvist on the waterfront at Nybroplan since 1908.

The theatre has many claims to fame including legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman who was its creative and managing director 1963 - 66 and directed numerous ground-breaking productions there. The Big Hall has a capacity of 720 and the Small Stage of 340, with both constantly busy producing and receiving shows along with the other stages.

The Small Stage (Lilla scenen) has recently purchas

BikeFest Spain 2025 - Join the ride!

BikeFest Spain is set to return for its fourth consecutive year, inviting cyclists from across the industry to join the 360km ride towards ISE in Barcelona. From 31 January to 2 February 2025, riders will again rally in Valencia, cycling along the Mediterranean coast in support of industry causes.
For more information and to sign up, visit: www.joinbikefest.com

Audile has been enjoying a packed summer of events

Stormys feed a festival frenzy for Audile

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Manchester-based production company, Audile has been enjoying a packed summer of events as director Rob Leach explains. "It's been back-to-back festivals all season: Snowbombing, Parklife, Creamfields, Bestival Boardmasters, Festival No 6 to name just a few of them. Very little of our stock has spent time on a shelf in the warehouse so it goes without saying that amongst our main priorities when considering equipment purchases are reliability and durability. Where lighting stock is concerned, we have to add flexibility to that list as we have to be prepared to adapt to a whole range of artist requests with little or no notice."

Audile has been a growing business since 1996 and now enjoys an extensive client list, ranging from dance music events, brand activations, touring and corporate shows as well as festivals. As a production house, they provide sound, lighting

Goya's new Northeast headquarters in New Jersey

Goya Foods centre enjoys clear announcements

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Goya Foods is the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States. Goya's new Northeast headquarters in New Jersey, which opened in late 2014, is part of a major company expansion programme and totals nearly 900,000sq.ft including office space and a 638,000sq.ft warehouse and distribution centre.

General contractor R.C. Anderson hired AVSI of Edison, New Jersey to design and install voice paging systems in the new facility. AVSI's Mike Venditte says, "The warehouse was especially challenging with its 50ft ceilings and 3.5-second reverb time. Ambient noise was also an issue. We measured occasional peaks as high as 100 dBA from forklifts and trucks at 12 cargo bay doors."

To overcome these challenges and achieve Goya's goals of fully audible and highly intelligible voice paging, Venditte designed an audio system based on Community RMG-200AT voice-range h

DiGiGrid IOX records new and emerging artists for subscription channel 360 Tunebox

DiGiGrid used on 360 Tune Box live broadcast

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - North London's trendy Nambucca venue recently played host to a day of eclectic live music. A mix of established acts, newly-signed artists, and emerging talent descended on the Holloway Road venue to get their live sets filmed in 4k, and recorded for broadcast, using DiGiGrid IOX units.

Luke Lockhart of production company, TF Music, is busy preparing for the show, which will see five bands play live sets over the course of the day for 360 Tune Box, an international broadcaster owned by SPI. TF is in charge of all things production, which constitutes setting up an eight-camera shoot [in 4k] and a 24-channel live recording setup. Lockhart and co. will be filming a string of different bands in various London locations over the coming weeks, before doing the same Stateside, if all goes to plan.

"360 Tune Box is kind of similar to Netflix; they have subscription channels,

Ravenna partners welcome Audinate on board

Details: 14 March 2016

Europe - With the announcement that Audinate has now delivered their AES67-enabled firmware to their OEM partners in order to offer AES67 compatibility with their Dante protocol, the Ravenna community "welcomes them to the world of interoperability they created five years ago".

Andreas Hildebrand from ALC NetworX, developers of Ravenna, states, "This is great news for users, who can now interconnect audio devices using Ravenna, Q-Lan, Livewire and finally Dante."

AES67 cannot be used on its own, it simply allows different audio protocols to talk to each other, so manufacturers who want to enjoy the interoperability of AES67 need to choose a protocol that is AES67-compliant to fit into their products.

"We always intended that many different protocols should provide AES67 compatibility in order to offer the system designer and/or end-user as wide a cho

New Bose FreeSpace dual-channel amplifiers

Bose now shipping four new FreeSpace models

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Bose Professional is now shipping four new dual-channel amplifier models from its broadened FreeSpace amplifier line. These models are optimised for premium commercial applications such as retail, restaurants and hospitality.

There are two mixer amplifiers (IZA 2120-HZ, IZA 2120-LZ) and two expansion amplifiers (ZA 2120-HZ, ZA 2120-LZ) each at 120 watts per channel. FreeSpace amplifiers can be quickly configured without the use of a PC, enabling each installation to be customised easily and intuitively. In addition, FreeSpace amplifiers offer a range of models and features to enhance any audio installation using Bose FreeSpace loudspeakers.

The IZA models include an integrated audio DSP providing Bose loudspeaker EQ, Bose Dynamic EQ, Opti-voice paging/ducking, audio mixing/routing, bass/treble adjustments, remote control options and an auto standby feature. The ZA models

The new V7P and V10P were named in the 2015 PLASA Awards for Innovation

d&b audiotechnik celebrates success at PLASA 2015

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - At the PLASA exhibition in London this week, the d&b GB team and sales partner SSE/Wigwam took the opportunity to talk to visitors and answer questions about the recently launched V-Series point sources. And there was plenty to talk about following the announcement that the new V7P and V10P had been named in the 2015 PLASA Awards for Innovation.

"The new point sources attracted a lot of attention at the stand," said Gianni Abruzzese, d&b GB commercial manager. "They're actually a really good example of the way d&b products are designed to work systematically. The three-way passive V7P and V10P provide exceptional directivity control with a high output. We had a V7P cabinet with the sides cut out on the d&b stand, exposing the hornloaded mid-range section. It's this dual chamber horn, which provides a remarkable MF performance, especially in the vocal range, t

Monitor engineer Adam Boole (left) and FOH engineer, Dave Nutbrown with the GLD at the Slipknot/BFMV gig in Las Vegas.

Bullet For My Valentine tour US with A&H

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - British heavy metal band, Bullet For My Valentine (BFMV), recently supported Slipknot on their latest tour, Summer's Last Standing, carrying Allen & Heath mixers to manage FOH and Monitors.

Comprising a GLD-80 at FOH, with an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-R72 rackmount Control Surface for monitors, BFMV's FOH Engineer, Dave Nutbrown, and monitor engineer, Adam Boole, connected the systems via ACE using a single Cat 5 cable.

"Adam controls the initial levels on iLive, the heartbeat of the system. I'm picking up the digital split on the GLD-80," said Nutbrown.

The Allen & Heath mixers were selected because of the excellent sound quality, reliability and compact size, which make them easy to take out on tour.

"Everything is right there in this great little package, it makes it so much easier for me. The FX are great and we are getting really good results durin

Sven Sören Beyer and Björn Hermann illuminated 25 bridges across the Main as part of a spectacular light show

Clay Paky lights bridges as Germany celebrates

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - Last weekend, the official celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Germany took place in Frankfurt am Main. In honour of the occasion, a lighting installation designed by Sven Sören Beyer and Björn Hermann illuminated 25 bridges across the Main as part of a spectacular light show on 3 October. For the technical side of things, they relied on products from Clay Paky, an Osram subsidiary.

Beyer and Hermann symbolically built a total of 25 bridges across the Main - taking the number of years since the reunification as his inspiration. Using 240 Mythos spotlights from Clay Paky, which were set up on 50 truss towers on both sides of the Main, they retold the history of the German people. "For me and for this event there was no alternative to using the Mythos spotlight, a mix of beam light and spotlight. The spotlights are not only extremely

SGM P-5 wash lights were deployed to enhance the historic buildings around the race track

SGM lights for Singapore skyline for night racing

Details: 14 March 2016

Singapore - Hexogon Solution Pte Ltd has been appointed to light up the city of Singapore during the 2015 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Night Race since 2013. Until now doing so with conventional flood lights, this year they opted for the LED technology by SGM.

Hexogon Solution Pte Ltd, formally known as Mozz Creation, dates back to 1997. The Singapore-based company has much experience within national and international events such as the digital projection for South East Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremony, setting Guinness World Record for the greatest light output in a projected image.

For their architectural illumination at the recent Formula 1 race in Singapore, Hexogon acquired 220 SGM P-5 wash lights, each consisting of 44 high power 10W RGBW LEDs. These were deployed to enhance the iconic and historic buildings around the race track including the Super Trees at th

Strictly has concluded its eighth season in South Africa (Photo: Mariska van den Brink)

Strictly Robe in South Africa

Details: 14 March 2016

South Africa - Strictly Come Dancing has just concluded its eighth spectacularly successful season on South African screens.

Broadcast on SABC 3 and produced by Rapid Blue, this international format, is produced in nearly 50 countries around the world and sets the ballroom floor alight every week with a sparkling display of dancing and lighting.

The series was lit by Gearhouse's Robert Grobler primarily using a selection of Robe moving and static LED lightsources - nearly 150 in total - all supplied, together with other lighting and rigging elements by Gearhouse South Africa. Strictly SA was recorded at SABC's Renaissance Centre in Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Robert was keen to continue using mostly LED fixtures, a path he took when lighting the show the previous year. He was given a free rein to create appropriate lighting by the producers based on certain givens, like the

Lori Rubinstein and John Simpson (Behind the Scenes UK trustees) with Luke Delwiche and Sarah Clausen of ETC

ETC's App sales benefit Behind the Scenes UK

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Sales of ETC's iRFR and aRFR (Radio Focus Remote) application for iOS and Android devices continue to benefit industry professionals who are seriously ill or injured through the Behind the Scenes UK charity. At the recent PLASA Show, a cheque for £19,084.37 was presented by ETC's Luke Delwiche and Sarah Clausen to John Simpson, chair of the Behind the Scenes UK board of trustees.

ETC's CEO, Fred Foster, said of the donation, "Once again we're amazed at the amount of money raised from the purchase of the iRFR and aRFR apps, and by the incredible work that Behind the Scenes has done with the funds. Great support is at the heart of ETC, and we've been able to see that same philosophy spread throughout our industry with this program. We're humbled to see how many people have stepped up and supported their colleagues by simply downloading an app."

Upon receivin

Blackout installed grey velour drapes, a matching header and a Triple E Unitrack to help create a moving theatrical curtain at the front of the stage

Achieving for Children revamps with Blackout

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Blackout supported Achieving for Children, a Community Interest Company (CIC) creating a professional style performance stage with theatre curtains and drapes in its new youth centre.

Achieving for Children (AFC) is a social enterprise, set up to help provide better social, educational and community outcomes for children within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Following a recent investment from Richmond Council, AFC alongside of Richmond Council leading on project management and delivery of the project took action to revamp part of the popular youth centre - the Heatham House gym, to provide better facilities for the young people who attend, as well as those within the local community.

Heatham House is a Grade II listed building, situated in Twickenham, and is accessed by over 1,000 young people each year. Over the

The room was lit with a delicate amber palette to show off the authentic Murano chandeliers

Showtec Event Spots add style to Venetian wedding

Details: 14 March 2016

Italy - The iconic Palazzo Pisani Moretta, overlooking the famous Canal Grande in Venice, is one of those locations renowned for magnificent events in the Venetian style. As such, it provided the setting for a sophisticated private event. In fact, the Australian groom and Turkish bride chose the Palace as the place to share the most important day of their lives with friends and relatives gathered from several different countries.

For this special occasion, the main floor was furnished with imperial tables for the dinner. The room was lit with a delicate amber palette to show off the authentic Murano chandeliers, the paintings by Tiepolo, and the gilded stuccos. Guests could feel as though they were reliving the glorious past of the Serenissima Golden Age of Venice. The pied-à-terre was firstly lit in orange to welcome the guests. It was later turned into a luxurious dance area

AIR6PIX benefits from multiple control options via DMX-RDM, Art-Net and Wireless DMX connection

Aram takes delivery of Prolights' Air6PIX fixtures

Details: 14 March 2016

Poland - Aram, one of the biggest Poland-based event engineering company, member of AV Alliance, is the first to take delivery of a large quantity of Air6PIX fixtures from Italian manufacturer Prolights.

Aram's CEO, Rafal Mrzyglocki comments, "We never stop looking for new and diffreent lighting effects which can change every show! Air6Pix was discovered by one of the best lighting designers in Poland, Adam Tyszka, on YouTube and we simple jumped in a plane to see them in preliminary presentation in Italy."

AIR6PIX is a new moving batten that add a new dimension in the field of effects and pixel mapping. The light source is six times 40W RGBW LEDs, combined with a 67mm optic system which delivers 4,5° powerful beams by keeping high colour consistency.

AIR6PIX performs continuous double rotation on both Pan and Tilt axes and pivot function to inclinate the 2 LED